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Set 1

Around & Around, Sugaree, Beer Barrel Polka Tuning, Mexicali Blues, Peggy-O, Beat It On Down The Line, Brown Eyed Women, Cumberland Blues, El Paso, Tennessee Jed, Jack Straw, Row Jimmy, Weather Report Suite Prelude-> Weather Report Suite Part 1-> Let It Grow

Set 2

Phil & Ned-> Dark Star-> Drums-> Dark Star-> Morning Dew

Set 3

Promised Land-> Bertha-> Greatest Story Ever Told, Ship of Fools, Not Fade Away-> Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad-> One More Saturday Night, E: U.S. Blues

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Reviewer: doug_the_dude - - November 19, 2012
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Try and find this board if you can - the GD Movie soundtrack saw it fit to chop up the brilliant second set suite and give us what they deem is best.

To be fair, seeing the Weather Report Suite live at the Winterland on the DVD release for the movie is a lot of fun; one of the last times it was played in its entirety; this will, in my mind, remain Bobby's greatest composition.

But set II is where it's at here - from Seastones until the end of Morning Dew we have an unbroken 75 or so minutes of music - a masterful musical movement, mostly jazz, as easy as you please. It's worth an official release but listening from the Seastones buildup to the final passages of 'Dew' is the way to go, IMHO. So don't give 'em the satisfaction by purchasing the soundtrack.

BTW, I know the GD movie is a big cult fave, but is anyone else disturbed at the way Garcia, as editor and director, sees his own band onstage? I mean, jesus, the emphasis on that flare-paper dude and the interpretive dancing is flabbergasting. I can't stand watching the movie for that reason - I much prefer the outtakes, where the emphasis on that ridiculous dancer gal is muted.

Notes

Notes:
-- Tracked by set, not by disc
-- This transfer is much better than the previous transfer
-- The first 2:14 of the show is patched from an audience recording
-- The first 18 minutes of Set 2 is patched from the Set 1 SBD source
-- 2 seconds of diginoise in Seastones (19:23 - 19:25)
-- Set 1 was pitch corrected with Adobe Audition v3.0
-- The patch in the beginning of Seastones was also pitch corrected
-- Thanks to Joe B. Jones for his help with the pitch correction